Sepharo wrote on Feb 23, 2015, 21:14:My Oculus Rift DK2 arrived today.I'm itching to get home and put it on.Might be joining those crazy Elite: Dangerous folks.

I was waiting out the retail product but I heard the release date is still "hopefully it will be out before 2016". So that's a maybe on this holiday season... Decided I can't wait that long on a maybe.

the best oculus game out there is called WindLands. but beware, no other game will come close as far as that "feeling" of movement and immersion, so i'd recommend doing it last.

I'm REALLY interested in this steam VR thing, industry insiders have been talking about it for years, that valve built a really crazy lab to develop this tech, and anyone who's witnessed it first-hand has walked away in a stupor. we haven't had any details, and now we have a product that's ready to demo, this will be very interesting to see.

What get me about a year or so ago, I thought they laid off the team, shared a little knowledge to OR, said some inherent problems not over come, perhaps I may even recall some of the laid off team doing something on kickstarter.

They laid off a bunch of people from their hardware skunkworks in general. They never mentioned what products specifically and Gabe actually came out to clarify that they weren't going to clarify which products the people were working on but that SteamBox / Controller and VR were still on.

My Oculus Rift DK2 arrived today.I'm itching to get home and put it on.Might be joining those crazy Elite: Dangerous folks.

I was waiting out the retail product but I heard the release date is still "hopefully it will be out before 2016". So that's a maybe on this holiday season... Decided I can't wait that long on a maybe.

Creston wrote on Feb 22, 2015, 22:20:Yeah, that's definitely going to be a massive problem for them. They say that everything can be earned in game, but if you can earn a $2500 ship in a few weeks of play, those that paid cash for it are undoubtedly going to bitch. That balancing act is going to be nigh-impossible, I think. (after which they'll just make them impossible to get, I'd guess, or maybe they'll allow a used vehicle market, essentially turning those high price ship into the equivalent of limited edition supercars. Who's got my Huayra?!)

Well, if the people who paid the cash complain, would there be anything they could do about it? RSI will already have spent the money.

Easy you just put a little tag in front the ship name [Heirloom] and everybody's good.

Bingo! Watched some guys do a let's play, and by the end of the second round, thought "Is that it????".

I'll say this though, there's an offline play with bots (and coop with bots filling in) so I'll buy the GOTY version in a couple of years once all the DLC is included. Just don't see the point right now.

Exactly. Once it's all in one package, down to $20, I'll check it out...

But how is that different than any other MP shooter? Or any MP competitive game really... MOBA's bore the shit out of me for their repetition, but apparently one or two people like it ; )

I'd assume it's the flow and mechanics of the game that are boring. One way to make Quake and CS really boring would be to have one guy running around on his own while everyone else chases and shoots only at him

Sure that might be fun every now and then as a novelty but if that was the whole game? bleh

Sepharo wrote on Feb 22, 2015, 02:52:-How do you know if someone doesn't have a facebook page?

-Just wait a few minutes and they'll tell you.

This is a thread about facebook, genius. If it was about the latest kickstarter release, no one would be talking about facebook.

- How do you know if someone has a facebook page?

- They're the type of person that just blindly does whatever the fuck they think everyone else is doing.

I don't even have email. That shit is for sheeple.

Oh, you're a real "rebel," Sepharo.

Since this is obviously a very sensitive subject for you, I tell you what. I promise not to put down facebook, or people who like facebook, ever again, okay?

Do you feel better now?

My sensitive subject?

That's what I said. Are you blind as well as dumb?

Well I told two jokes and your response was to call me a genius and a rebel and write a bunch of other words (and later significantly edit the tone of some). Seems more of a sensitive topic for you than me. Let's continue. You're up again.

"Significantly?" I edited my post, yeah, but as far as I can see, my "tone" is exactly the same in both versions. Correct me if you can.

But I think you're right, even when you're wrong. Maybe I should change my tone. I shouldn't have called you dumb. That was "insensitive" of me. Let me try again.

Yes, I did say this was a sensitive subject for you. If it wasn't, you wouldn't try to make fun of the minority of us who didn't jump on Zuckerberg's bandwagon along with all the rest of you. If I had to guess, I'd say that on some level, you don't like thinking of yourself as just another sucker following the herd. So when people don't do that, it makes you uncomfortable, hence your need to try to make fun of them.

I think we're making real progress here, but I'm afraid our time is up and your session is now over. Please pay the receptionist on your way out, and we'll talk again next week. Try not to be too hard on yourself in the meantime.

Sepharo wrote on Feb 22, 2015, 02:52:-How do you know if someone doesn't have a facebook page?

-Just wait a few minutes and they'll tell you.

This is a thread about facebook, genius. If it was about the latest kickstarter release, no one would be talking about facebook.

- How do you know if someone has a facebook page?

- They're the type of person that just blindly does whatever the fuck they think everyone else is doing.

I don't even have email. That shit is for sheeple.

Oh, you're a real "rebel," Sepharo.

Since this is obviously a very sensitive subject for you, I tell you what. I promise not to put down facebook, or people who like facebook, ever again, okay?

Do you feel better now?

My sensitive subject?

That's what I said. Are you blind as well as dumb?

Well I told two jokes and your response was to call me a genius and a rebel and write a bunch of other words (and later significantly edit the tone of some). Seems more of a sensitive topic for you than me. Let's continue. You're up again.

Most likely, but lets hope it is true as the 1440P Oculus is going to need some nuts to run it.

I'm not sure Quboid's guessing is really required. Just like Mantle allows over 10 times more draw calls, it doesn't mean games or hardware are suddenly going to be even 2 times as fast in general. Actually looking at 10 times and 900% I wouldn't be surprised if this Brad is just talking about draw calls and being a click-baiting tuckfard for attention.

This is probably all the Mantle stuff all over again, been there done that etc, also we won't be specific about the claims since people will just reply "already been done".

Anyone who hopes, nevermind believes, that going from one API to the next version is going to improve overall performance by any factor is, well I don't really want to say rude things right now.

The only graphics API news I'm remotely interested in is seeing why they're making a noise about the new OpenGL, or it's replacement or whatever (yes I'm trying hard not to use the word "Next", oh dammit)

True. Re-reading the tweet, it looks like he is referring to a specific case and didn't mean to imply anything else.

Sepharo wrote on Feb 20, 2015, 03:54:I think we'll be just fine. History backs me up.

Just fine? If by that you mean that humanity will survive, you are probably correct. I wouldn't call it 'just fine' though. I doubt that people in Syria and Iraq are doing 'just fine'. I doubt that the people in Ukraine are doing all that great. We never learn from history, we are colossal fuck-ups. Its not, just fine.

No I was replying your post about decaying culture and devolving species. Neither of which are true.

saluk wrote on Feb 19, 2015, 18:30:Tim and Moly are similar in many ways, and in a sense, share the same basic failing. They are both highly creative, artistic people, with very little to buffer them. The kinds of things Peter says are the kinds of things I say to myself when I'm planning a novel or working on one of my own games. "Wow, this puzzle game is great, but maybe it would be better with a crafting system?" "Oh man, what if this character is actually the main character from the future who has come back but he is hiding his identity?" You kind of HAVE to go to this crazy space where anything can happen, it's just what comes natural.

At some point you either get lucky, or have enough other forces working as a project goes on to keep you grounded. With both Godus and Broken Age, the projects were public far too soon in the dev process, while things are still in the "anything can happen!" phase of creation. And not enough was done to ground them.

It's weird how people talk about Broken Age like it's some unfulfilled game. It has everything and more that they promised the only hitch was that they released it in two parts. I'm definitely looking forward to part 2 because it's longer and more difficult and part 1 was already very good.

You sound like a possible candidate for a rescue Greyhound. They are apparently quite content to be couch potatoes after all the athletics.

I'm not sure if the Boxer recommendation was a joke, but to my experience they are pretty crazy.

They're energetic within their own space. They're family guard dogs so they're gentle with children and other pets. But they're a large breed that doesn't shed (well not like a long hair dog sheds) or slobber and they spend most of the day loafing about.

Here are some videos, showing their restrained energy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTJqwXYrPP8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmeoNRJOGBohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5qlBn-nNIchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQVkYaaPO6g

I've got no personal experience from which to draw, I'm just going by what's said about the breed. A lot of what you describe sounds right, I'm just not sure that it's "basically a lazy bum."

Like Creston said, you take them for a walk (or throw a ball down the steps 20 times) and they sleep for 6 hours

Also I've seen them burn energy running laps in the backyard and come in drink some water and take a nap. My family has always had boxers, and most of the time two at once. Can't speak for all boxers but the ones I know aren't barkers, shedders, droolers, they don't harass your guests, sleep like 75% of the day. Every now and then I think about getting a different breed but then I feel like I'd miss out on the Boxer quirks and that face

You sound like a possible candidate for a rescue Greyhound. They are apparently quite content to be couch potatoes after all the athletics.

I'm not sure if the Boxer recommendation was a joke, but to my experience they are pretty crazy.

They're energetic within their own space. They're family guard dogs so they're gentle with children and other pets. But they're a large breed that doesn't shed (well not like a long hair dog sheds) or slobber and they spend most of the day loafing about.

Agent.X7 wrote on Feb 19, 2015, 02:00:Well, some of us are older. We remember back when PC video games were more about making something awesome to share than making mega bucks. Sure, iD wanted to make money to pay themselves, but Wolfenstien and Doom and shit were made to be awesome for people to play with the benefit of making money.

Now? Games are made to make millions, and we just pray there's some fun in there somewhere.

It's human nature. Motion pictures, video games - all art is eventually co-opted by corporations for the express purpose of making them money. It's why a lot of first time film makers have these great films that inspire us and then they are zombified by the Hollywood machine and come up with shit for ever after.

This is such garbage and you know it.

You remind me of baby boomers who say that everything was better back in the 1950's. you're remembering a world that never existed, you're deluded with a combination of rose-lensed nostalgia glasses, and intense hatred for everything currently in front of you. maybe you always wanted to become a fireman or a policeman, and you didn't, you rue and lament your list life, and of simpler times. As now all you're qualified to do is manufacture hyperbole on message boards.

"Do you remember the time when people didn't work for money?"*projectile vomit*

Your recent discovery of the shift key has done wonders for your posts. Keep working towards that 100% compliance. Also I was with you until you got to the personal insults / career hopes speculation.